Top cuts from Thursday at CWS

Jun. 20, 2013

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Legend in house

Burke Masters, former Bulldog and hero of the 1990 super regional, made an appearance at Mississippi State’s practice on Thursday. The Catholic priest and Chicago Cubs team chaplain teaches a summer class at Creighton University. This year the class and his former team intersected at the perfect time. Masters talked with players as well as his former teammate and current MSU coach John Cohen. He told stories of Cohen’s ferocious attitude as a player.

Renfroe puts on show

For the second straight day Hunter Renfroe put on a show during batting practice at Creighton’s baseball facility. The MSU junior parked three more home runs over the left field fence, one of which landed square in the middle of a Hyundai Sante Fe’s windshield. Somehow it remained uncracked. The next ball he unloaded on sailed across the street and into the middle of the parking lot. Luis Pollorena tracked it down three blocks away from home plate.

Bulldogs visit children at Omaha hospital

On its third off day in a row, after a practice that included field drills, batting practice and lifting, Mississippi State visited patients at the Omaha Children’s Hospital. As they always do, Mississippi State players took to Twitter during and after the event, praising the experience and thanking the children they met.